My take is the Canadian startup financing landscape is healthy and getting more robust and mature.

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Smart Technologies cofounder Jeffrey DeCoux, then only 23, had vague plans for an Internet software firm when he met Heller at a conference on startup financing in early 1995.

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In their simplest forms, debt financing is when a startup agrees to pay back a loan with a predetermined timeframe and interest rate and equity financing is when the business sells ownership shares in exchange for funding.

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